Friday, September 14, 2012

Unity September Challenge - Pennants and Banners

Happy Happy Saturday (I'm writing this at midnight)!

Whoa - it's gonna feel so good to be able to sleep in a bit!
Never realized how crazy it would be to have a Grade 5er, Kindergartener and a Preschooler... with classes all starting and ending at different times! I do get a 'bit' of time to myself though... but not enough for me to sit and create something. I feel like my life revolves around the clock right now.

For all the new Unity fans - you'll notice that there's several different challenges going on at once! There's the Kit of the Month Challenge (which starts on the 1st), there's link up for Friends with Flair Fridays (every week) and this - which ALWAYS start on the 15th, and always have a theme. Not to mention all the challenges going on over at the Ippity blog, and there's occasional challenges running over on Unity Facebook wall as well!

So - I got to pick a theme for the challenge... and guess what I chose? PENNANTS and BANNERS!

Yippee!!! They are like my favorite things right now... along with canvas, burlap, doily, rosettes, washi tape, wooden chips... lol...

For my project, I decided to take my fave alphabet stamps, and decided to make a little Halloween banner that you can set on your party table! I was gonna do a card, or a layout... but just felt like being different! I also wanted to let you know that ANY type of project is okay for the challenge - as long as it uses Unity stamps.

Here are the pics!

I decided to go backwards today, and show you all the close ups first before showing you the whole thing!

Don't you just LOVE these papers, too? It's the Lost and Found Halloween Collection from My Mind's Eye, and kraft Funday Everyday Fun papers... just can't get enough of it!

I love the black canvas! I inked it up with off white ink to make it a little 'worn'.

As you can see, I've added banners on top of the pennants to bring out the letters :)

Just loving these half rosettes... always have made them round, but here, round was just a 'bit' much, so half was perfect!

I hung this banner on a wooden dowel covered with washi tape, and stuck it inside one of those Starbucks coffee drink jars (yeah, I keep them... kinda scary to see how many of these I've drank!) and filled it up with rice.

This banner is so festive and cool, I love it! The fonts in the stamp set are so perfect accompanied with those papers, canvas and burlap. The half rosettes are amazing and the Starbucks bottles! OMG! I would have never have thought to keepThem. They look darling Filled with rice! 100% in love with this project Thienly! :)

Amazing cutter.

Fun digital/cutting files!

Miss Tiina.

My Grafico.

Just a little bit 'bout me.

Well... HELLO! Thank you for stopping by!
I reside in Calgary, AB (Canada) with 3 kids (10, 6 and 4)and a hubby. They keep me busy), REALLY BUSY! But, if I'm lucky - I do sneak away and get some crafting time in! Otherwise, my paper magic happens during the night :)
Feel free to leave me your love here, and feel welcome to use any of my original ideas for your personal use. All I ask is that you give credit appropriately and that you don't copy or re-create any of the artwork posted on here for submissions to contests, publications or for profit. Please link to this blog for any projects/ideas inspired by me. I hope to get to know all of you, and inspire many creative people out there.
Thanks:)